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A while back on channel 8, John Wheeler, the weatherman, talked about the snow buntings coming down from the arctic to spend some of the winter between Winnipeg and Grand Forks. One of this old farmers more enjoyable things in this short lifespan is...

There is something I just do not understand. How can Christians justify themselves when they vote for a man or party that supports abortion? It is murder! This is not about a political party issue, but BABIES! It goes like this right? Democrats are... Full story

This global warming AKA climate change is sure looking a lot like nothing has changed a whole lot. We usually can count on a short January thaw but January and February used to have a lot of days of “good limbing”. Good limbing usually meant tem...

This old farmer is in no way, shape or form putting anyone down for having a love of ice fishing. But, are the what was once dozens, hundreds and now thousands of wheelhouses crippling what is probably our states best walleye fishery? When you can be...

Many years ago before my first cell phone it was a nice sunny day the early part of April. One of my cows was in the process of having a calf. They almost always do better when left alone to go about their business. I sat down on the sunny side of a...

This global warming AKA climate change is sure looking a lot like nothing has changed a whole lot. We usually can count on a short January thaw but January and February used to have a lot of days of “good limbing”. Good limbing usually meant tem... Full story

After watching the sun come up, most mornings while drinking coffee I noticed that using the road to the east one mile away that the sun comes up nearly a mile and a half further south on the shortest day in December than on the longest in June. It...

Recently, Governor Tim Walz announced that internet providers will receive nearly $100 million in funding to expand broadband coverage to more Minnesotans. This largest-ever grant round is estimated to extend new high-speed internet connections to mo... Full story

Why is twenty below so much colder than it was forty years ago? It is a phenomenon that helps explain the mass migration of mainly retired people to warmer climates in the winter. Snow birds as they are called are either unable to handle the cold or...

Historians long considered the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in 1621, when the Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts sat down for a three-day meal with the Wampanoag. Quote, “November 26, 1789, the United S...

When is our government going to change their view on mental health? As of now their MO seems to be to wait until someone does something and then lock them up or shoot them. Over half of prison inmates are there due to mental health issues. According...

I was a Minn. State Trooper for over 30 years and during that time I witnessed what a mothers love is. I was called to an accident and when I arrived I saw a body in the ditch holding a young boy. She was hugging him and talking to him with words so...

Our nine days of the year when some of us find out who our friends and neighbors really are is history one more time. Nothing seems to bring out the territorial instincts in a human quite like hunting season. Little houses on stilts all over the...

About 8 a.m. on one below-freezing morning, I saw our apartment maintenance man, Toby Larson, scraping thick ice off the car windows in our parking lot. He is in his eighties and walks with a limp. That action surely is beyond his required duties.... Full story

Another opening day of deer season is now a memory. After fifty-two of them which would have been fifty-three except there was no season in 1971 due to extreme shortage of deer, the sunrise was one of the prettiest. There is no shortage of deer, but... Full story

The song; Sunrise Sunset swiftly go the years, One season following another, is hitting closer to home every year. The fishing on the lake is maybe as good as it gets right now. As a friend pointed out “it is never too cold, sometimes you just d...

Roseau County Sheriff Elections are upon us and It’s time for a change. The current Sheriff has lost the morale of his department, and has created an environment where majority of his staff; jailers, dispatchers, and deputies have lost confidence a...

I wanted to take this opportunity to list a few of the many reasons why I believe Steve Gust should be re-elected sheriff of Roseau County. I have worked with Steve since 1997 when I first started working in law enforcement in Roseau County. I have...

We now endure the last stretch of the 2022 “rigged election” terrorist campaign. Once, the politicians would just lie and expect us to vote for them. Then a butt-head loser started the “rigged election” terror campaign in 2020. Anyone that had not vo...

Deciding to run for Sheriff for Roseau County was not a hard decision for me. I was encouraged by some of my coworkers from the Roseau County Sheriff’s Office, City of Roseau, City of Warroad, and the Borderland SRT Team. After hearing their r...

Life got interesting for a little while last evening. While yackity yacking on the phone my dogs, one half great pyrenees and half German shepherd and Turbo a miniature rat terrier wanted desperately to get out. Assuming without really looking that... Full story

A cruel fact of life is that the older we get the deeper the cold penetrates our bones. Some of the smarter ones among us have already traded some of the best fishing of the year and deer hunting for warmer weather. This morning that seems like a...

That was a song a long time ago. The question is how something that makes you feel the best also makes you hurt the worst. When it says until death you do part in our marriage vows, does that mean when one dies the love does too? Not even close. Some...

I am the lady who left two packages on Hwy 11 in Roseau a couple of weeks ago. The Roseau Times took my request of finding those purchases seriously, and posted an ad, asking for help in getting them back. I GOT THEM BACK! Someone had noticed our... Full story